At Last, My Legacy Has Come Along Edition Part 2
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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Dolly Parton's Most Played Recording
Jolene Parton's story song about a bewitchingly beautiful woman who can steal another woman's man was Dolly's first song to cross from the country charts to the pop charts. Unlike I Will Always Love You, which was covered memorably by Whitney Houston, Jolene it remains firmly associated with Dolly. Peter Gabriel's Salisbury Hill has certainly wildly outperformed its original lowly Hot 100 peak. But for Gabriel, the legacy hit, the one that will surely outlive him, is the one Lloyd Dobbler was playing from his boombox in 1989.
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